Monica Dolan
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Monica Dolan is a BAFTA and Olivier Award winning actor whose work spans television, film and stage. Monica was born in March 1969 into an Irish family and has a sister Gabrielle. She studied drama at the Guildhall School in London, graduating in 1991 and soon afterwards went into television. A supremely versatile character actress, she has tended to specialize in stunning portrayals of the darker side of life, as real-life stalker Maria Marchese in U Be Dead (2009), demure but deadly Miss Gilchrist in the superior Poirot adaptation Poirot: After the Funeral (2006) and, particularly, as serial killer Rosemary West in Appropriate Adult (2011) for which she, along with fellow Guildhall graduate Dominic West, deservedly received a BAFTA award.
Known for
Credits
Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
as Tommy's Mum
Never Let Me Go (2010)
as Nurse
Pride (2014)
as Marion
Elsinore (2026)
as Linda
Eye in the Sky (2015)
as Angela Northman
Official Secrets (2019)
as Fiona Bygate
King Lear (2008)
as Regan
The Dig (2021)
as May Brown
Empire of Light (2022)
as Rosemary Bates
Guernsey (2005)
as Claire
Cyrano (2021)
as Marie
Onwards and Sideways (2026)
as Liz Evans
A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone (2024)
as Mrs. Dorman
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
as Miss Barnes
This Time Next Year (2024)
as Connie
Book Club (—)
as Jane
Sightseers (2012)
as Janice
Fern (2017)
as Woman
The Lost Children of Tuam (2026)
as Catherine Corless
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)
as Angela
Days of the Bagnold Summer (2020)
as Sue
The Falling (2015)
as Miss Martha Alvaro
National Theatre Live: All About Eve (2019)
as Karen Richards
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties (2025)
as Self (Narrator)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
as Hermia
Within the Whirlwind (2009)
as Pitkowskaya
My Name Is Leon (2022)
as Maureen
Typist Artist Pirate King (2023)
as Audrey Amiss
The History of Mr Polly (2007)
Actor
U Be Dead (2009)
as Maria Marchese
Rialto (2020)
as Claire
Complicit (2013)
as Judith
The Arbor (2010)
as Ann Hamilton
She Stoops to Conquer (2003)
as Miss Kate Hardcastle
A Woman Walks Into A Bank (2022)
as Narrator
The Gift (1998)
as Jo
Wallis & Edward (2005)
as Elizabeth
Excluded (2010)
as Amanda
Occupation (2009)
as Nicky Swift
Meconium (2011)
as Kel (voice)
Out of Darkness (2013)
Actor